How can believers in God support abortion?

Question

Abortion is a grave sin against the Fifth Commandment of God: "Thou shalt not kill" (Ex. 20:13). "God alone is the Lord of life from the beginning until its end: No one can under any circumstances claim for himself the right directly to destroy an innocent human being" (Donum Vitae 5). The person murdered through abortion has the same right to life as those who conspire to kill him—his mother, the abortionist, and the politician who legislates the "right" to kill. To speak of one’s right over one’s body as justification for abortion is sophistry. There is not one body but two; not one person but two, both with an equal right to life. Fortunately, abortion kills only the body of the victim, but the soul of the victim is unharmed. That soul will live forever in God’s love, with the degree of happiness that God’s love and mercy bestows. How can any Christian/Jew/Muslim support this crime against God?
( good article at: http://www.catholic.com/thisrock/2000/0009fea4.asp )

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Answer 1

Actually, the Bible gives INSTRUCTIONS on how priests are supposed to perform abortions for unwanted pregnancies.

In addition, God kills and commands the killing of millions of people (more than Hitler), including babies, children, and pregnant women. He clearly has NO respect for human life at ANY age.

Answer 2

I actually don't be conscious of. it style of feels our rules used to guard human beings from others. Anit- abortion rules secure the youngster. yet now it style of feels such a lot of rules are designed in basic terms to guard misled human beings from the leads to their very own movements. think of roughly it, each and every person is suing others for harm using their very own stupidity including spilling warm espresso in ones lap. Newsflash! espresso is served warm, it could burn, in case you spill it its your fault, no longer the eating places fault, no longer the fault of the agency that made the cup, no longer the fault of the people who paved the parking zone the eating place instruments on. in case you are able to not get that, then you definately are too mentally defficient and hazardous to be even holding a cup of espresso or utilising a motor vehicle. back to the abortion concern, killing a newborn is on no account suitable for any reason. If it have been suitable, then why do human beings get so disappointed whilst a newborn is murdered by utilising a tension by utilising shooting? in spite of each and every little thing, we'd desire to continually have loose determination suitable? isn't the guy doing the shooting in basic terms exercising consultation their determination? Murdering a newborn is incorrect, era, end of tale.

Answer 3

Are you personally going to take care of all the unwanted children?
I had the honour of being raised by a single mother who definitely did NOT want me, but was not able to get an abortion. She made sure that every day of my childhood I was reminded that I'd ruined her life. I think the idea of my "soul living forever in God's love" would have been much nicer than being physically abused by a hateful mother.

Answer 4

We must remember OE thing that ALL APOSTLES OF GOD preached according to conditions of their times i.e. when they were present of Earth. In those early times all preached to grow and spread all over the Earth . Today baring the poles and few other pockets Earth is thickly populated. here is shortage of Oxygen, and in very near future potable water will be a problem. Some have predicted Wars for water in times to come.
Also consider that GOD said you will not destroy Nature Man has done great harm to its equation.
Therefore what ever we may argue it is the duty of MAN to preserve this Planet which GOD gave us to inhabit and prosper. We need to look at our scriptures in totality.

Answer 5

I don't think they support abortion, but the right to chose.

Free will was the fundamental cornerstone in the creation of humanity, God's gift that was unique in all of creation. Tampering with another person's free will is the same as questioning God's works.

Be very, very careful when restricting another person's rights as this sin is greater than all the others. Depriving another person of their rights flies directly in the face of God's will.

Answer 6

I'm sure you noticed when asking your question that it HAS been asked before - as recently as THIS week. So are you really looking for an answer or just wanted a place to spread your opinion?

OF COURSE YOU KNOW IT WAS ASKED BEFORE...YOU ASKED IT. And I received Best Answer. Look dude, come up with another reason for existing here. This isn't a place to post your own personal diatribes disguised as questions.

Anyone want to see the duplicate? Go here:
http://answers.yahoo.com/question/index;_ylt=AiMbvE5BAPiZQFjeJTZBb.AjzKIX?qid=20070727092526AAJM2NB

Answer 7

I wish I knew the answer. I will never understand how a human life can be reduced to next to nothing and then be justified as right. Quite sad and quite telling about those that do.

Answer 8

I'm not a believer in God, in the same sense you are, which is to say, I don't believe in the God you believe in.

But I'm much in favor of abortion, disease, starvation, and war. Not enough of it, in my opinion.

Answer 9

By your logic, every SINGLE aborted baby lives eternally in heaven. Only SOME babies who are born will choose Christ and end up in heaven. The truly moral person would abort all babies, ensuring their eternal bliss.

Answer 10

I think that abortions are wrong. Not for religious, but for humanitarian reasons. Its a child not a choice.